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tion. She was lame in both legs, alternately on the right, then 
on the left. By manual exploration the phalanges could be 
moved and bent inward on the cannon bone ; but displacement 
outward was impossible. A certain crepitation was detected, 
less marked, however, than in a case of lracture. The treat¬ 
ment consisted in the application ol a severe blister, slings 
and plaster, splints not being on hand or easy to procure. 
For two days the diseased condition progressed and compli¬ 
cated itself ultimately by large cutaneous ulcers, and the giv¬ 
ing way of the skin, with protrusion of the lower end of the 
melatarsus of the left leg first, but soon followed by the same 
complication on the right side, so that the animal stood on 
the ends of these bones with the digital region bent inwards. 
When destroyed, at the post mortem, the joints were found 
filled with coagulated blood, the synovial capsule torn and 
highly inflamed, the cartilages more or less ulcerated, and the 
lateral ligaments of both joints lacerated more or less in their 
entire thickness, or only in some of their fibres. What was 
the cause of this sudden breaking down? Was it due to 
peculiar alteration or pathological degeneration? These are 
questions that the author proposes to answer at a later period. 
— Ibid. 
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES, 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
The fifteenth annual commencement exercises of the 
American Veterinary College were held on the 5th of March, 
at Chickering Hall. Prof. T. D. Weisse, M.D., President of the 
faculty, presided, and among the members of the faculty and 
of the Board of Trustees, were also found many friends of 
the college and members of the alumni association. 
The exercises were opened by the Rev. Otto Arnold, who 
offered prayer, after which the members of the graduating 
class received their diplomas from the President, conferring 
the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery. Following is 
the list of graduates ; Charles Bruce Ainsworth, Greensburg, 
Ind.; Alber t Fay Becke r, Hemlock Lake, N. Y.; William 
Henry Berkmeyer, New York; Henri Brister, New York 
